Spatial evaluation and regionalization of comprehensive urbanization level in China

The development of China´s urbanization has significant regional differences. This paper constructs an evaluation system for China´s comprehensive urbanization level in terms of three aspects: population, economy and society. Entropy method is adopted to evaluate the comprehensive urbanization level of 2,289 county unites in China and construct urbanization type regions; and the method of spatial autocorrelation is used to regionalize the level of China´s comprehensive urbanization. The results show that population and economy are two major subtypes reflecting the comprehensive urbanization level of China; the spatial distribution of China´s comprehensive urbanization represents a clear administrative hierarchy; China can been divided into four types of comprehensive urbanization regions, namely, population urbanization lag regions; economic and social urbanization lag regions, comprehensive urbanization lag regions and comprehensive urbanization non-lag regions; Regionalization of three kinds of urbanization types are different in pattern, mechanism and mode.